Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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55
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year under review 246 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
and 21 cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis were notified
for the first time under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1930.
From the following table it will be seen that the number of cases of tuberculosis notified in Hackney declined fairly steadily from 1920 until 1941, when war-time circumstances commenced to affect the Borough's tuberculosis case rate:—
Year. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary | Total. |
---|---|---|---|
1920 | 410 | 139 | 549 |
1921 | 361 | 105 | 466 |
1922 | 319 | 85 | 404 |
1923 | 387 | 89 | 476 |
1924 | 334 | 115 | 449 |
1925 | 356 | 109 | 465 |
1926 | 330 | 88 | 418 |
1927 | 336 | 80 | 416 |
1928 | 293 | 80 | 373 |
1929 | 284 | 79 | 363 |
1930 | 256 | 70 | 326 |
1931 | 256 | 43 | 299 |
1932 | 275 | 50 | 325 |
1933 | 274 | 42 | 316 |
1934 | 258 | 41 | 299 |
1935 | 253 | 49 | 302 |
1936 | 202 | 47 | 249 |
1937 | 248 | 56 | 304 |
1938 | 221 | 45 | 266 |
1939 | 213 | 34 | 247 |
1940 | 197 | 26 | 223 |
1941 | 194 | 32 | 226 |
1942 | 244 | 35 | 279 |
1943 | 229 | 28 | 257 |
1944 | 237 | 41 | 278 |
1945 | 221 | 29 | 250 |
1946 | 232 | 17 | 249 |
1947 | 242 | 23 | 265 |
1948 | 249 | 15 | 264 |
1949 | 246 | 21 | 267 |
The attack-rate per 1,000 of the population for all forms of
tuberculosis notified for the first time in 1949 was 1.54.